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SubjectRe: DEVFSv50 and /dev/fb? (or /dev/fb/? ???)
On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Richard Gooch wrote:

>I've just created a directory with 85000 inodes. An inode lookup (near
>the end of the directory) takes about 10 ms on my dual PPro 180.
>Extrapolating that to 8 million inodes gives us nearly a second.
>Doing ls -lF on the directory is simply not possible: I killed it
>after waiting 40 minutes.

In the future with 8 million of device in /dev/ we will divide /dev/ in
directories. Dividing /dev/ in two directories would divide 1 sec in 0.5
sec of access. /dev/ has nothing of hardwired you can put your device also
in /tmp/.

Why don' t you have all your files in / without directories?

Andrea[s] Arcangeli


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